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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	king_n	say_a	15,578	5	6.9294	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06381	The copy of a letter sent by one of the camp, of the Prince of Conde (touching the feats of war as of late haue been doon) to a freend of his, the xxx. of December last past. Anno Domini. 1568	One of the camp, of the Prince of Conde.	1569 (1569)	STC 16853; ESTC S107743	2,103	10

I A I A THE COPY OF a letter sent by one of the camp of the Prince of Conde touching the featꝭ of war as of late haue been doon to a fréend of his the xxx of December last past Anno Domini 1568. Laus Deo ¶ Omnia Vincit Veritas OF A LETTER AFter your departure most honourable out of Fraunce we haue own nothing but rūning to and fro ▪ taking laying siege to Towns and Citties and all what wée haue taken in hand hath prospered wel and gone forward God haue the honour for it And yet wée wil not ceasse or leaue of but go forward as place and time shall serue And as we neuer douted of your good wil and earnest desire to se the cōfusion of Gods our enemies so now we sée efféctually shewed your redy help and present comfort And as wée haue had before in our ētreprises or attēpts good succedings so now we truste to doo the better for your ayd which you haue sent vs. Not because we put any trust or confidence eyther in our selues or in any outwarde force but that they are meanes wherby our God I trust shall deliuer vs and that shortly God forbid that wée should make fleshe or blood our arme or to put anye conridence in the multitude of horsemen Neuerthelesse wée are many and our number is thirtie thousand footmen of the which ther are fiue and twentie thousand Harkebusiers or Gunners and the rest weaponed with Launces and seuē or eight thousand horsemen beside the multytude which is cōming from Montaban And as for our victories whiche God hath giuen vs wée haue taken by force of weapon these townes following S. Iehan Dangeli Fontenay Angoulesme Chaueni néer Poytiers Chammi Lodun Bisamni Ambeteni Toillebourg Niort Partenay Pont. Penni Talmond Montagni Blay Bōniūet Sainctes And other more as Coingnac New castel Bréeflye all what lyes vpon the riuer of Garrōne vntil the riuer of Loyre on the side of Samne Concerning the battails or skirmisshings whiche we haue had against our enemies we haue béen together twise or thrise in suche a place and field as they might haue chosen for their aduantage to fight wheras they were so layd an that neuer since they durst méet vs any more but alwayes auoyd and flée our companie smelling vs a far of as a Fore dooth the pitched line Touching the méeting and a skirmishe betwéen vs fiue wéeks ago they lost seuen or eyght hundreth men the spoile was about two hundreth M. crownes worthe but they saued them selues by the means of a riuer some within Poytiers some other at Lusignam My Lord the Prince of Conde caught the hat of an Italian Capitaine named Peter Strocij My Lorde Admiral the Coate of one Brisac My Lord the Duke Montgomery the stirrops and spurres of Monsieur of Guise One of my Lord Admirals lackeis hath for his part sixe and thirtie péeces of siluer vessels whiche did belonge to the lord of Guise To be short ther was none of them al but that they were th● better for it After that my Lords the Princes being of minde to prouoke thē to fight a battail applyed them selues in their fight towards the Towne and Castle of Chagny a fortresse where as they trusted them selues for to be most sure but these good soules had rather to saue them selues by flying then to defend their Townes Castels or to presēt thē selues to a Combat for they say it is dangerous to be there as their cōmon terme was at that time throughe out all their camp as since it hath béen very often practised by them louing rather to flée and to forsake their Towns and cities then to hazard their liues or to put in ieobardie their bodies thorow the whiche they hope to be reuenged So the said Prince of Conde being néer Samny for to haue besieged it our enemies approched with their Artissēry within a quarter of a leagne of Lodun and required it to be rendred wher of the Prince béeing aduertised made haste towards them in suche sorte that they were constrained to break vp their siege and to go againe to their olde accustomed remedy whiche is to get thē away ouer the riuer True it is that b●fore they came so far there were slaine two hundred of their men the night following seuen Ensignes more were vndoon and destroyed Moreouer two dayes past the companie of Monsieur du Noye ouertook and found at the subburbs of the afore sayd town Chagny about thrée or four score Zwitsers Also the Prouost and Archers of the Garde of my Lord the Kings brother which was him self within the Town And beyond the water was an Alarme very hote This day there came newes by two Gentlemen whiche arriued comming frō the Prince of Orenge and the Duke of Bipont whiche left the said Prince of Orenge within seuen twētie leagues of Paris hauing with him ten or eleuen thousand Kutters or Horsemen and foure thousand frenche men and sixtéen or seuentéen thousand footmen whiche take their journey straight toward Paris of the whiche armie Monsieur de Iauliis leadeth the first warde And the said Duke of Bipont hath béen cōming toward the prince of Orenge euer since the tenth day of this Moneth to ioyne him self with him Also newes came aswel in our camp as also to oure enemies that Monsieur D'arnalle hath lost foure thousand men being constrayned throughe the armie of the Prince of Orenge whiche came to ioine him self to the Duke of Bipont to retire sudenlye with two thousand men whiche were left him to go to Riens It is said for a trouth that the Lord Guise is gone in poste to finde out the King Also it is said that the moste patt of there camp goeth toward Paris to set the against the straūge Princes I beleeue wée shall follow Cito Cito ¶ Imprinted at London at the long Shop adioyning vnto S. Mildreds Churche in the Pultrie by Iohn Allde Anno Domini 1569 Ianuarij 24 ▪